Chicken-waterer.



PATBNTED MAR. 5, 1907.

P. BERNARD. CHICKEN WATERER. APPLICATION FILED JULY 21, 1906.-

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PHILIP BERNARD, OF JEFFERSON, SOUTH DAKOTA.

CHlCKEN-WATERER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 5, 1907,

Application filed July 27, 1906. Serial No. 328,083-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that .I, PHILIP BERNARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at J efferson, in the county of Union and State of South Dakota, have inventedua new and use ful Chicken-Waterer, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in chicken-waterers.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of chicken-waterers and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and eflicient one of great strength and durability having heating means for preventing the water from freezing in cold weather.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details of .construction within the scope of the claims may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a .chicken-waterer con structed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawing.

1 designates a superimposed tank mounted on .a lower casing 2 and having arectangular bottom 3 and a rounded or arched top 4; but the tank may be of any other preferred configuration, as will be readily understood. One end of the tank is closed, and the other end is provided with a drinking-trough formed by inner and outer spaced partitions 5 and 6. ward from the top of the tank and terminates short of the bottom of the same to provide an opening 7, which communicates with the trough 8, and the outer partition. 6 extends upward from the bottom of the tank to a point above the opening 7. The water from the tank flows into the drinking-trough as the water is'consumed, and as the lower edge of the partition 5 is located adjacent to the bottom of the tank and the outer partition extends only a short distance above the bottom the chickens will be able to drink practically all the water within the tank. The

The inner partition 5 extends down-' tank is provided at the end having the trough with a bail 9, by means of which the trough may be readily carried for filling the chicken-waterer.

The casing 2, which detachably supports the tank, is rectangular, being provided with a horizontal bottom 10 and vertical side and end walls 11 and 12. The side walls have projecting upper portions or flanges 13, which are spaced from the side walls of the tank to-provide openings for the escape of the products of combustion, and the sides of the lower casing are provided with suitable airinlet openings 14. The tank is provided at its bottom with depending transverselydisposed tapering ribs 15, consisting of substantially D-shaped pieces of sheet metal and fitting within the lower casing and engaging the end walls thereof, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing. These tapering-ribs wedge the tank on the lower section .and prevent the tank from becoming accidentally displaced.

The tank is adapted to be used without the heating attachment in warm weather, and it may be placed. on the ground or on any suit able support. The heating attachment is provided with a gasolene-burner 16, which is connected with an exterior reservoir 17 by means of a tube 18; but an ordinary lamp may be employed, if desired. Th'e'tube 18 is secured to the exterior on one of the side walls of the lower casing by means of upper and lower brackets 19 and 20, and the opposite side wall of the lower casing is' provided with an opening 21, which is covered by a transparent sheet 22 of isinglass or other suitablematerial. One end of the lower casing is provided with a door 23 to afford access to the heating device.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A device of the class described com prising a superimposed tank having a trough and provided with tapering transverse ribs forming depending wedges, a supportingcasing receiving the tank and provided at opposite sides with upwardly projecting flanges spaced from the sides of the tank to provide openings, the ends of the casing being engaged by the ribs whereby the tank is wedged thereon, and a heating device located within the lower casing.

2. In combination with the supportingcasing provided at the top with flanges along each side, the tank having a trough and pre- In testimony that I claim thefdiegoing as vided with dependingribsWhich-engage the my own Ihave hereto affixed my signature inner face of the casing, the'tank' resting on in the pres'e'n'ce'oftwo Witnesses.

the upper edges of the casing at the ends, and PHILIP BERNARD. being of a width less than that of the casing Witnesses:

so as to leave escape-openings at the sides of W. R. MEOHIN,

the tank. H. 1?. GUINEY. 

